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Lexicon :: Strong's H4714 - miṣrayim

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מִצְרַיִם
Transliteration
miṣrayim
Pronunciation
mits-rah'-yim
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Part of Speech
adjective, proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1235

Strong’s Definitions

מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x

The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x
The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).
proper locative noun

  1. Egypt = "land of the Copts"

    1. a country at the northeastern section of Africa, adjacent to Palestine, and through which the Nile flows

      adjective

  2. Egyptians = "double straits"

    1. the inhabitants or natives of Egypt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
STRONGS H4714: Abbreviations
מִצְרַ֫יִם 681 proper name, of a territory and people, feminineExodus 10:7, masculineExodus 12:33, masculine pluralGenesis 41:55 etc. (see below 2), Egypt, Egyptians (Phoenician מצרם; Assyrian Mǔṣŭr(u), Muṣru, Miṣir, DlPar 308 SchrCOT Glossary KGF 246 ff., Tel Amarna Mišrî, WklTA 39 * BezBM 152, and Mašrî Wkll. c.; Arabic bdb059503 Cairo, Egypt (Spiro): Minean Miṣru HomA and A. (1892), 125; see EbÄgM 71 ff.; Greek Version of the LXX Αιγυπτος; — derivatives and form dubious; יִַ֯ם usually regarded as dual term. (Upper and Lower Egypt? compare DiGenesis 10:6), but as locative ending EMeyGeschichte. I, § 42 BaNB p. 319 R. 5; JenZA iv (1889), 268 ff. thinks מִצְרַיִם absolute formed by analogy of מַיִם, שָׁמַיִם from Miṣrî (compare Tel Amarna); see further Wklinfra, near the end); — מ׳ Genesis 13:1 +; מִצְרָ֑יִם Genesis 37:36 +; מִצְרַיְמָה Genesis 12:10 + 12 times, מִצְרָ֑יְמָה Genesis 12:11 + 14 times; —
1.
a. of land, Egypt Genesis 13:1 + 500 times, +, in all periods, including אֶרֶץ מ׳ Genesis 13:10 + approximately + 220 times (of course feminine, Genesis 47:6, 13); אַדְמַת מ׳ the soil of Egypt † Genesis 47:20, 26; מֵימֵי מ׳ † Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:2; נְהַר מ׳ † Genesis 15:18; יְאֹר מ׳ † Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5; יְאֹרֵי מ׳ † Isaiah 7:18 (compare מָצוֺר); שִׁיחוֺר מ׳ † 1 Chronicles 13:5; לְשׁוֺן יָםמֿ׳ † Isaiah 11:15; נַחַל מ׳ Joshua 15:4 + 6 times (see these various words); land as productive Genesis 45:20; Genesis 49:23, compare שֵׁשׁ בְּרִקְמָה מִמּ׳ Ezekiel 27:7, אֵטוּן מ׳ Proverbs 7:16; often || בּוּשׁ, especially in prophets and poetry Isaiah 20:3, 4, 5; Isaiah 45:14; Ezekiel 30:4, 9 +; || אַשּׁוּר Hosea 11:11; Hosea 12:1; Isaiah 7:18; Jeremiah 2:18 +; including Upper Egypt (פַּתְרוֹם), as well as Lower, Jeremiah 44:1, compare Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:6; apparently distinguished from Upper Egypt Isaiah 11:11, and possibly also Jeremiah 44:15 (compare Gf Gie Buhl SS CheHpt Isaiah); but פתרוס etc. in these verses somewhat dubious (compare B. Du Gie).
b. combinations are:
(1) מ׳ as limit of motion: מצרימ(ה)יָרַד Genesis 43:15; Joshua 24:4 + with + 12 times; מ׳ בּוֹא + with + 26 times, בְמ׳ בוא † Isaiah 19:23, לְמ׳ בוא † Jeremiah 44:218; מ׳ מ׳שׁוּב Hoshea 8:3 + 9 times, אֶל־מ׳ שׁוּב † Hoshea 11:5, שׁוּב מ׳ לְאַרְצוֹ † Jeremiah 37:7; מ׳ בָּרַח † 1 Kings 11:40; מ׳ שָׁלַח † Jeremiah 26:22; so (+אֶל־) Jeremiah 26:22. In Jeremiah 42:16b read בְּמ׳ with Gie.
(2) מ׳ as point of departure (הֶעֱלָה) מ׳ מִן־(אִרץ) עָלָה Genesis 13:1 + with + 43 times; יָצָא (הוֹצִיא) מ׳ מִן־(ארץ) Exodus 12:39 + with + 96 times; מִמּ׳ פָּדָה † 2 Samuel 7:23 (but de. Gei Urschr. 288 We Dr Kit Bu) = 1 Chronicles 17:21; מִמּ׳ בּוֹא † 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 20:10; מִמּ׳ שׁוּב † Jeremiah 44:28; 2 Chronicles 10:2; מִמּ׳ אָתָה † Psalm 68:32; מִמּ׳ † קָרָא † Hoshea 11:1.
2. of people:
a. in table of nations, personified as second son of Ham † Genesis 10:6 = 1 Chronicles 1:8, compare Genesis 10:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:11.
b. = Egypt (as a people), Egyptians Genesis 41:56 + approximately + 134 times, including use = Egyptian Kingdom, empire, i.e. land and people as political power; so with verb feminine singular אָֽבְדָה מ׳ Exodus 10:7, compare Hosea 9:6; Joel 4:19 and (pronoun feminine singular) Ezekiel 30:18; with verb masculine singular Exodus 12:33; Exodus 14:25; Isaiah 19:16, 23, 25; Jeremiah 46:8; often with verb masculine plural Genesis 41:55; Isaiah 19:21, 23 + 22 times; בִּנֵי מ׳ Ezekiel 16:26; בְּתוּלַת בַּת מ׳ Jeremiah 46:11, compare Jeremiah 46:19; Jeremiah 46:24. — In 1 Kings 10:28 2 Chronicles 1:16, 17; 2 Kings 7:6 WklAlttest. Unters. 171 f. thinks of Assyrian Muṣri in North Syria. (On מִצְרַיִם as often = Muṣri in North Arabia see WklAltor. Unters. i. 24 ff., ii. 195, iii. 289; iv. 337 f; MVG 1898, 1.4).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:6; 10:6; 10:13; 12:10; 12:11; 13:1; 13:1; 13:1; 13:10; 15:18; 37:36; 41:55; 41:55; 41:56; 43:15; 45:20; 47:6; 47:13; 47:20; 47:26; 49:23

Exodus

7:19; 8:2; 10:7; 10:7; 12:33; 12:33; 12:39; 14:25

Joshua

15:4; 24:4

2 Samuel

7:23

1 Kings

10:28; 11:40

2 Kings

7:6

1 Chronicles

1:8; 1:11; 13:5; 17:21

2 Chronicles

1:16; 1:17; 10:2; 12:3; 20:10

Psalms

68:32

Proverbs

7:16

Isaiah

7:18; 7:18; 11:11; 11:15; 19:16; 19:21; 19:23; 19:23; 19:23; 19:25; 20:3; 20:4; 20:5; 45:14

Jeremiah

2:18; 26:22; 26:22; 37:7; 42:16; 44:1; 44:15; 44:28; 46:8; 46:11; 46:19; 46:24

Ezekiel

16:26; 27:7; 29:10; 30:4; 30:6; 30:9; 30:18

Hosea

9:6; 11:11; 12:1

Amos

8:8; 9:5

H4714

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Strong's Number H4714 matches the Hebrew מִצְרַיִם (miṣrayim),
which occurs 639 times in 573 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 12 (Gen 46:3–Exo 5:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; H4714 for I will there make of thee a great nation:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:4 - I will go down with thee into Egypt; H4714 and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, H4714 Jacob, and all his seed with him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:7 - His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 - And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, H4714 Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt H4714 were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, H4714 which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:27 - And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, H4714 were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, H4714 were threescore and ten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:6 - The land of Egypt H4714 is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, H4714 in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt H4714 and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, H4714 and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - And when money failed in the land of Egypt, H4714 and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians H4714 came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt H4714 for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians H4714 sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21 - And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt H4714 even to the other end thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt H4714 unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, H4714 in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt H4714 seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, H4714 and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt H4714 before I came unto thee into Egypt, H4714 are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - And Joseph returned into Egypt, H4714 he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, H4714 he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:1 - Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; H4714 every man and his household came with Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:5 - And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt H4714 already.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:8 - Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, H4714 which knew not Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - And the king of Egypt H4714 spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt H4714 commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - And the king of Egypt H4714 called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23 - And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt H4714 died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:7 - And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, H4714 and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, H4714 and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:9 - Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians H4714 oppress them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:10 - Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:12 - And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, H4714 ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt H4714 unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, H4714 and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:19 - And I am sure that the king of Egypt H4714 will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:20 - And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt H4714 with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:22 - But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, H4714 and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: H4714 for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: H4714 and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, H4714 see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - And the king of Egypt H4714 said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:12 - So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt H4714 to gather stubble instead of straw.

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